Kintsugi is a very special Japanese technique of restoration that, rather than hiding the lines of break of an object with a perfect sticking and coverage, does entirely otherwise. Kintsugi remarks those lines with a special reparation made with gold and silver, thus highlighting the jagged motive of the injury. This transformation turns the old object into a new work enriching the old unaltered shape with a bright scar.
Gold instead of glue, metal instead of adhesive transparent substances. The difference is all in that choice: is it better to hide the loss or celebrate the story of survival?
Western countries have a hard time blending in with the cracks. Kintsugi is not only a metaphor of reconstruction or appreciation of experience, as well as a metaphor of positive change, but is also a metaphor of the articulation of the parts with the whole: creative transformation of life starting from the loss of fragments that cannot be replaced. Positive reception of such transformations give birth to an identity that is continuous and everchanging.